Jacob Mariani
Bridgeport
Summary
Results-driven professional with extensive experience in seafood management. Skilled in problem-solving and teamwork.
Known for effective communication and team-building skills, driving impactful visual merchandising and maintaining stock efficiency to meet customer expectations.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Seafood Department Manager
Grade A Shoprite (Cingari Family)
Norwalk
03.2020 - Current
- Built appealing displays consisting of staple items, as well as some "Exotic" items to help drive sales and satisfy customer's expectations.
- Delegated daily workload across all team members in order to ensure the team and department is working efficiently and effectively.
- Maintained adequate stock of product while also executing reactionary order reductions to avoid possible shrink due to overstock, especially of highly perishable fresh fish.
Assistant Seafood Department Manager
Grade A Shoprite (Cingari Family)
Fairfield
03.2018 - 03.2020
- Aided the department manager in daily operations such as serving customers, building orders, organizing and packing out product, as well as training newcoming employees.
- Acted as the department manager's second in command, decisions made in this capacity included determining if and when overtime approval was necessary (Eg: Holidays), replacing shifts when callouts occurred or serving as the replacement myself if coverage was not available.
Operations Assistant (Small Business)
Swanson's Fish Market
Fairfield
11.2014 - 01.2018
- Started as a clerk was the owner's right hand man within first year.
- Visited Fulton Fish Market at Hunt's Point multiple times a week, learned directly from Gary Swanson (Swanson's owner) how to select the freshest high quality seafood that our customer's want
- Learned how to "break down" whole fish Eg: How to fillet
- Learned the financial ins and outs of running a small business
- Oversaw the store's onsite catering business from discussing our offerings and setting up the event with the customer, then going and catering said event at customer's location of choice and preparing the customers food choices on site.
Education
High School Diploma -
Bassick High School
Bridgeport, CT06-2014
Skills
- Certified Food Safety Professional (Servsafe)
- Certified to Administer CPR (AHA)
- Safety Chairman
- Visual merchandising
- Customer relationship management
- Problem solving
- Team building
- Effective communication
- Waste reduction
- Cross-department collaboration
Timeline
Seafood Department Manager
Grade A Shoprite (Cingari Family)
03.2020 - Current
Assistant Seafood Department Manager
Grade A Shoprite (Cingari Family)
03.2018 - 03.2020
Operations Assistant (Small Business)
Swanson's Fish Market
11.2014 - 01.2018
High School Diploma -
Bassick High School